Otto Glória

Otto Glória

Glória in 1969
Personal information
Full name	Otto Martins Glória
Date of birth	(1917-01-09)9 January 1917
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date of death
Managerial career
Years	Team
1948	Botafogo
1951	Vasco da Gama
1954–1959	Benfica
1959–1961	Belenenses
1961	Sporting
1962	Marseille
1963	Vasco da Gama
1964–1965	Porto
1965–1966	Sporting
1964–1966	Portugal
1966–1968	Atlético Madrid
1968–1970	Benfica
1971–1972	Grêmio
1973–1975	Portuguesa
1977	Santos
1978–1979	Monterrey
1979	Vasco da Gama
1978–1981	Nigeria
1982–1983	Portugal

Otto Martins Glória (9 January 1917 – 4 September 1986) was a Brazilian football coach.

Career

Glória was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but had his greatest successes with Benfica in Portugal, guiding the club to nine national trophies. With the Nigeria national team he won the 1980 African Cup of Nations.

In his first period with Benfica, the club was transformed to professional standards. Glória founded a home for the players and focused on recruiting players from the periphery of the Portuguese capital and also from the African overseas provinces. In these years between 1954 and 1959 the club won two leagues and three Portuguese Cup.

In February 1962 he took on the reins of Olympique Marseille. The club was then stuck in the second division and saw its aspirations to return to the first division endangered. In his four months with the club did not lose a single match and achieved its objective.

In his second tenure with Benfica he had continuous success on the national level, winning two more championships and cups. He also led the club into the 1968 final of the European Cup of Champions in London against Manchester United, which was lost 1–4.

At the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England he led the Portugal national team, with Eusébio, who became the tournament's top scorer, to the third place. In the process Portugal inflicted a 1–3 defeat on Glória's home country Brazil. The official head coach of the Portuguese team was then Manuel da Luz Afonso.

In 1979 he became with CR Vasco da Gama of Rio de Janeiro runner-up in the Brazilian championship, losing in the final 1–2 against SC Internacional Porto Alegre, which remained undefeated throughout the competition.

In the year thereafter he guided Nigeria through the 1980 African Nations Cup, which the team won in the final in Lagos with 3–0 against Algeria, and the Olympic Football Tournament 1980 in Moscow. He left this position after poor performances at the 1982 campaign in Libya.

Glória coached Portugal, in 1982, in qualifying matches for UEFA Euro 1984, but resigned after a 0–4 defeat in a friendly match with Brazil, the following year.

Managerial honours

Club

Botafogo

• Campeonato Carioca: 1948

Benfica

• Primeira Liga: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1967–68, 1968–69
• Taça de Portugal: 1954–55, 1956–57, 1968–69

Belenenses

• Taça de Portugal: 1959–60

Sporting

• Taça de Portugal: 1965–66

Portuguesa

• Campeonato Paulista: 1973

Country

Portugal

• FIFA World Cup: Third place 1966

Nigeria

• African Nations Cup: 1980

External links

• Otto Glória manager stats at ForaDeJogo

Preceded by Josef Szabo	Cup of Portugal Winning Coach 1954-55	Succeeded by Dorival Yustrich
Preceded by Dorival Yustrich	Cup of Portugal Winning Coach 1956-57	Succeeded by Otto Bumbel
Preceded by José Valdivieso	Cup of Portugal Winning Coach 1959-60	Succeeded by Filipo Nunes
Preceded by José Maria Pedroto	Cup of Portugal Winning Coach 1968-69	Succeeded by José Augusto